The problem with this theory is that we have created anti-matter. If this were the case, we would expect to see the energy from its decay before it is created, but we do not. It appears to be bound by causality just like regular matter.
This is like when you are looking at a piece of code and think to yourself: This never should have worked, how was it working before now? And then it suddenly stops working in just the way you expect. If we all suddenly cease to exist tomorrow I blame CERN. Or Donald Trump, but for a different reason.
It was only a few years ago people were saying that the best Go computers would never beat human players because the game was so much more complex. We're getting to the point where AI decisions, even when explained, end up being too complex for humans to follow. This is a scary path we are following.
The problem is that each port needs to be wired to PCI-e lanes on the CPU, and Intel severely restricts the number of available PCI-e lanes on consumer chips, especially on laptop chips.
The other issue is that laptop manufacturers have to take into account the power budget of someone plugging tablets into every USB-C port at once.
The one good thing about USB-C is that it means you can theoretically have generic charging bricks for laptops like you have for phones. Ending that particular connector conspiracy is definitely a good thing.
The lack of ports isn't entirely an Apple thing, it's an Intel thing. Intel doesn't give you many PCI-e lanes on their consumer grade chips, and USB-C ports need those so you end up with a port starved laptop. Plus there is the power budget concern where you can pull lots of juice from a USB-C port, way more than the laptop is set up to provide when you have an abundance of ports.
This is why you never see laptops with 6 or 8 USB-C ports like you used to see with USB2.
My first thought is that someone has set up their own drug exchange and is trying to knock the competition offline. Of course since this is TOR a DDOS affects everybody on the network, so it's a bit self defeating.
It has been awhile, but I remember all of the gaming over the karma system resulted in the caps and hiding the actual number pretty quickly. This is one reason I say the Slashdot system is still the best. I mean compare all of the low effort karma whoring that plagues Reddit for a counter-example.
Even if this were a good idea, and I'm not convinced yet, the 4 hour battery life is a showstopper. It looks like the designer was so interested in keeping it small and discreet that they didn't budget in enough space for a proper battery. I would be shocked if this is still a product this time next year. At best the "AI" algorithm will get ported to an Android app so you can turn any old phone into this weirdass robotic photographer.
The furthest back I can go is 2008. I'm guessing the older comments aren't indexed the same way or there is a limit on the number of comments per user that the system keeps in the index. You could painstakingly search the old articles I think, but that's a lot of work.
I was working at the time and had a morning meeting, so I missed out on the lowest UIDs. Funnily enough I remember hesitating a bit before signing up because it seemed like that comfortable anonymity of the web was being chipped away little by little.
I can't remember any time when Slashdot was pro-Microsoft, especially in the early "evil empire" days. Slashdot also has IMHO the best mod system of any website. Because the scores cap at 5 and your total score is hidden as well as capped there is little reason to game the system. Moderators are limited to people who contribute even a little, and there is meta-moderation to theoretically constrain the bad actors. Metamod probably hasn't worked as well as it should, but it's more than any other site has tried.
The idea that a community as large as Slashdot could survive without moderation is silly. Check out literally any other comment system with a similar scale and no moderation (your local newspaper, YouTube, etc...) and you will find nothing but worthless trolling, crazy people, and flamewars. Without a way to control the trolls all of the quality people leave and the forum turns into a raging dumpster fire until it is shut down entirely.
I was actually thinking about this on the way into work today. Assuming people in the crowd were armed it would have been with handguns. The shooter was a good city block away up high in a hotel. What are the odds people returning fire would have been able to score a hit on the shooter without hitting people in adjacent hotel rooms? This of course assumes they could figure out where the shooter is in the first place. Snipers are notoriously difficult to spot.
In my opinion the odds that return fire would have done anything except make the situation worse are extremely remote.
This is one part of The Man in the High Castle that I didn't think was going to come true. Granted, in the book this travel is mostly restricted to the super-elites in society, but it still seemed so impractical.
I have to wonder what kind of world it would be where ICBMs are an economically viable form of transport but SSTs are not.
iBiquity is one of the most shameful examples of regulatory capture I have ever seen. Their system is entirely proprietary and protected by DRM and yet they are mandated as the only option for these chunks of the public spectrum. As you might expect the takeup has been slow and unenthusiastic. It's a tremendous waste of precious bandwidth.
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The problem with this theory is that we have created anti-matter. If this were the case, we would expect to see the energy from its decay before it is created, but we do not. It appears to be bound by causality just like regular matter.
You never defined Objective Universe or Subjective Universe, your argument makes no sense.
This is like when you are looking at a piece of code and think to yourself: This never should have worked, how was it working before now? And then it suddenly stops working in just the way you expect. If we all suddenly cease to exist tomorrow I blame CERN. Or Donald Trump, but for a different reason.
It was only a few years ago people were saying that the best Go computers would never beat human players because the game was so much more complex. We're getting to the point where AI decisions, even when explained, end up being too complex for humans to follow. This is a scary path we are following.
The problem is that each port needs to be wired to PCI-e lanes on the CPU, and Intel severely restricts the number of available PCI-e lanes on consumer chips, especially on laptop chips.
The other issue is that laptop manufacturers have to take into account the power budget of someone plugging tablets into every USB-C port at once.
The one good thing about USB-C is that it means you can theoretically have generic charging bricks for laptops like you have for phones. Ending that particular connector conspiracy is definitely a good thing.
The lack of ports isn't entirely an Apple thing, it's an Intel thing. Intel doesn't give you many PCI-e lanes on their consumer grade chips, and USB-C ports need those so you end up with a port starved laptop. Plus there is the power budget concern where you can pull lots of juice from a USB-C port, way more than the laptop is set up to provide when you have an abundance of ports.
This is why you never see laptops with 6 or 8 USB-C ports like you used to see with USB2.
My first thought is that someone has set up their own drug exchange and is trying to knock the competition offline. Of course since this is TOR a DDOS affects everybody on the network, so it's a bit self defeating.
You're welcome.
Someone else mentioned that 2008 would have been right around the time of the great 32bit comment ID rollover.
It has been awhile, but I remember all of the gaming over the karma system resulted in the caps and hiding the actual number pretty quickly. This is one reason I say the Slashdot system is still the best. I mean compare all of the low effort karma whoring that plagues Reddit for a counter-example.
Even if this were a good idea, and I'm not convinced yet, the 4 hour battery life is a showstopper. It looks like the designer was so interested in keeping it small and discreet that they didn't budget in enough space for a proper battery. I would be shocked if this is still a product this time next year. At best the "AI" algorithm will get ported to an Android app so you can turn any old phone into this weirdass robotic photographer.
The furthest back I can go is 2008. I'm guessing the older comments aren't indexed the same way or there is a limit on the number of comments per user that the system keeps in the index. You could painstakingly search the old articles I think, but that's a lot of work.
Then we will need a new Netflix to eat their customers the way Netflix has eaten cable's customers.
I was working at the time and had a morning meeting, so I missed out on the lowest UIDs. Funnily enough I remember hesitating a bit before signing up because it seemed like that comfortable anonymity of the web was being chipped away little by little.
I have to wonder how many of the sub 10k UID accounts are still active. Probably only a couple hundred.
If Slashdot's comment system was replaced by Kinja I would never come back.
You can tell a real Slashdot old timer when you run across someone who still has the friend/foe stuff setup.
I can't remember any time when Slashdot was pro-Microsoft, especially in the early "evil empire" days. Slashdot also has IMHO the best mod system of any website. Because the scores cap at 5 and your total score is hidden as well as capped there is little reason to game the system. Moderators are limited to people who contribute even a little, and there is meta-moderation to theoretically constrain the bad actors. Metamod probably hasn't worked as well as it should, but it's more than any other site has tried.
The idea that a community as large as Slashdot could survive without moderation is silly. Check out literally any other comment system with a similar scale and no moderation (your local newspaper, YouTube, etc...) and you will find nothing but worthless trolling, crazy people, and flamewars. Without a way to control the trolls all of the quality people leave and the forum turns into a raging dumpster fire until it is shut down entirely.
I remember having a randomly generated password that you couldn't change when they first introduced usernames.
I also remember when a story was on fire when it had more than a hundred comments. At that point the site would start to slow down from the traffic.
There was also Jon Katz and his idiotic editorial pieces.
Another year another 10% price hike. This is why I ditched my cable in the first place Netflix.
I was actually thinking about this on the way into work today. Assuming people in the crowd were armed it would have been with handguns. The shooter was a good city block away up high in a hotel. What are the odds people returning fire would have been able to score a hit on the shooter without hitting people in adjacent hotel rooms? This of course assumes they could figure out where the shooter is in the first place. Snipers are notoriously difficult to spot.
In my opinion the odds that return fire would have done anything except make the situation worse are extremely remote.
This is one part of The Man in the High Castle that I didn't think was going to come true. Granted, in the book this travel is mostly restricted to the super-elites in society, but it still seemed so impractical.
I have to wonder what kind of world it would be where ICBMs are an economically viable form of transport but SSTs are not.
iBiquity is one of the most shameful examples of regulatory capture I have ever seen. Their system is entirely proprietary and protected by DRM and yet they are mandated as the only option for these chunks of the public spectrum. As you might expect the takeup has been slow and unenthusiastic. It's a tremendous waste of precious bandwidth.
According to the CLDF the challenge came from a patriotic Polish person who objected to the depiction of Poles.